20 Gunnar Landtman. 



From eating the shell-tish the woman became pregnant and bore a bo\-, Sido. — One da\' he 

 split the women in tvvo witii a sharp wooden instrument. 



36. Transformations of Sido s Spirit. Sido lay down at the bottom of a grave and 

 wanted to pass out of his old body and be provided with a new one. By follovving his example 

 the people would escape death, hut Sido was prevented from carrying out his intentions. — He 

 died, and his mothers buried him but kept his skull, carrying it round their necks in turn. Sido's 

 spirit came out again from the grave, emanating a strong light. He went away and forbade his 

 mothers to foUovv him. 



37. Sido's Spirit continues its Wanderings. On his way in a westerly direction Sido 

 passed several places and spöke to the local inhabitants. He opened the way to the land of the 

 dead and went to prépare the place where the spirits would dwell, 



38 — 10. Sido in Boigti. In spite of his warning Sido's tvvo mothers came after him to 

 Bdigu, where the people were engaged in a dance. — Sido vvas, thirsty, and the two let him 

 drink from his own skull, which they had brought with them. He speared the two women and 

 transformed them into a turtle and dugong. — Through their action in foUowing after him and 

 making him drink from his skull they prevented him from returning to life. After that e\-eryone 

 m.ust die and follow Sido to Adiri, the land of the dead. 



41—43. Sido arrives at Adiri ivlierc he reiiiains. After passing by a few additional 

 places Sido was brought to Adiri by a large fish. He was received by two men who lived 

 there and married the daughter of one of them. — The three original inhabitants of Adiri lived 

 under the ground. As they had no fire Sido lighted them one. He had connection with the giri 

 in the night, and from his semen all sorts of vegetables and fruit sprang up. In the morning 

 Sido showed the two men the gardens he had thus made. He built an enormously long house 

 for the spirits. — Sido transformed himself into a pig, split open his stom.ach, spread out the sides, 

 and became a house in which the spirits lived. 



Songs of Sido. 



Addenda. 



SOIDO AND PEKAl, THE PROMOTERS OF AGRICULTURE. 



44. Söido while clearing land for a garden sent his wife to get fire from a bushman 

 who had a fire burning in his hand. The bushman outraged the woman. Söido killed his wife, 

 eut up her body, and threw the pièces on the garden, and they turned into various kinds of 

 vegetable and fruit. S(')ido swallowed the food whole, and the various things passed down into 

 his genitals. Then he was carried by a bird to certain islands, and everywhere he asked the 

 people to give him a woman, but did not get one. At length Morévanogére of Möre gave him his 

 daughter Pékai, and the two had connection in the night. Sôido's semen caused all kinds of 

 plants to grow in Möre. Låter on Pékai was transformed into a stone, but Söido's and Moré- 

 vanogére's spirits still live beheath the ground in M(')re. — The fruit and vegetables grew in 

 Pékai's abdomen, and she brought them forth as when giving birth to a child. — The\- grew up 

 from Pékai's excréments, 



Tom. XL VII. 



